SpaceX sent 27 of its Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit from California this evening (April 3). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 9:02 p.m. EDT (6:02 p.m. local California time; 0102 GMT on April 4).

Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 crew of private astronauts got a two-for-one deal this week when they watched a SpaceX rocket lift off just hours before their own launch into space.

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday afternoon after it had been delayed.

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 astronaut mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew is mission commander Chun Wang, vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen,

The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed headlines for its flight path